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Chapter 515: 335-336: A comprehensive plan! (4000 words)
Leader Zhang was listening to Andrew Ng's explanation in shock. He was so fascinated that he stopped in his tracks.

Although he is the leader of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology actually deals more with enterprises and units in the communications and some basic industrial fields.

As for artificial intelligence.

to be frank.

In his opinion, in China, only Hillhouse Capital can meet the threshold of artificial intelligence.

As for other companies, such as the recently popular Cambrian and Zhongwei, which truly adopts the follow-up tactics, they are not yet able to reach the big level for the time being.

After all, the biggest barrier to artificial intelligence is not money, but talent!

Just the number of PhDs in mathematics required would be very impressive if a company could gather 100 of them.

Because, in 2018, it is questionable whether an ordinary non-key university can gather 100 doctoral students.

Not to mention, a business without a staffing structure is even more unstable!

However, in the past few years, before artificial intelligence became popular, Hillhouse had already accumulated 2000 mathematics PhDs.

Although there have been ups and downs, the technology has been accumulated, and with the assistance of some mathematics masters, a certain technical barrier has been established.

This kind of technical barrier is very difficult to overcome even for companies like Zhongwei who want to catch up.

Even though he had such an expectation in his mind, he was still extremely shocked by what Andrew Ng said.

Tough!

It's so powerful!
It was hard for him to imagine that human beings had advanced to the current level in technological development.

"For the agent model represented by Alpha Fold, we are already researching a new direction, which is to enable this product to develop a new general model."

"The protein folding problem that Alpha Fold can now solve is at the top of the list of scientific problems our company hopes to solve, in addition to driverless cars."

“If we can find that and break through it, it will be revolutionary.”

"Our current research actually proves from the side that artificial intelligence has great potential in the scientific field."

“It can replace the work of many scientists.”

"China is currently lacking in research on some basic natural sciences. With Alpha Fold, our country can save a lot of money and achieve progress in human science and technology."

At the end of his speech, Andrew Ng was quite excited and even gesticulated.

Leader Zhang listened and nodded.

If we say that his original purpose of coming here was for Hillhouse Vehicle's L3-level car.

Now, he is attracted by the huge research and development prospects brought by alpha fold.

This is absolutely, absolutely a revolutionary product!

No wonder Gao Huaijun wants to go 'ALL IN AI'. In the beginning, even the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology had a scrutinizing attitude, but now he is convinced.

The kind of conviction that comes from the bottom of one's heart!

He actually knows better than Andrew Ng what benefits this so-called alpha fold can bring.

In the field of science and technology, automation is certainly not intelligence, but without automation, there would be no intelligence.

The problem with biochemistry is not only in China, but even in developed Western countries such as the United States. The level of automation is too low, which results in large amounts of data being unsuitable for machine recognition, seriously hindering the development of intelligence.

This also leads to a very low cost-effectiveness even for national investment.

The country has invested a lot of money and resources, making biological sciences almost useless.

Then what’s the point of investing?

So the so-called 21st century is the century of biological sciences, but the reason why students graduating from biological sciences can’t even afford to eat is because of this reason.

Without the original start-up, there would be no industrialization or industrialization, and there would be no biological science.

However, as a country with a comprehensive industrial chain, China is actually very envious of the huge potential of biological sciences.

To put it bluntly, even the biopharmaceutical sector that has been discovered recently has produced several large pharmaceutical companies with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars.

If China can just grab a part of it, it can have a good life and solve the employment problems of millions of people.

In fact, the Chinese government is not particularly concerned about whether it can make money or not, because the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Chinese government is the most profitable department on the planet. But when it comes to opening up new industrial fields and increasing employment, that is real performance!
The field of biological sciences has never been related to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. To put it bluntly, there are no similarities at all.

No grip at all!

The current Alpha Fold can accelerate the automated analysis of experimental structures through high-throughput experiments using interactive AI.

Furthermore, to use the fashionable words in academia, industry and investment circles: artificial intelligence accelerates pharmaceutical manufacturing.

What a great field this is!
In the distant future, this will definitely be a trillion-level cluster that is in no way inferior to the large-scale complex industrial complex of the automobile industry.

Providing employment for millions or even tens of millions of people.

Is Hillhouse’s artificial intelligence technology already that terrifying?
Gao Huaijun saw the excited look in Zhang's eyes and said with a smile, "Alpha Fold is just a new direction and trend developed by our artificial intelligence BU. The agent big model will become a universal big model together with driverless technology in the future. Our strategic core is still in the electronic technology and automotive information industry technology sector. We will not blindly expand our business scope."

He doesn't want to spread his business too far.

Now Hillhouse has very strong R&D capabilities in five core industrial clusters, including electronic information industry, chip design and manufacturing, battery design and manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and automobile industry, as well as software development such as Xiaoling.

It can be said that Hillhouse is a technological banner of China!

Under this premise, he really didn't want to spend too much time and energy on unknown biological sciences.

The fact that one's achievements surpass those of his master is not just talk!

This is just like Zhong Wei in later generations. Why was he reluctant to get involved in making cars himself?
Is it because he is not capable enough?
Still don’t want to?

Are you just using the smart car selection mode in the back?

The core reason is that such a large-scale technology company can already openly influence the country's policy direction and open up new tracks at random, which is really scary!

When Leader Zhang heard Gao Huaijun say this, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded knowingly. He naturally knew what Gao Huaijun meant.

Now he and Gao Huaijun are in contact and they talk on the phone basically once a month.

Let me ask, is it because he has too little to do that he is given more work and tasks for no reason?
Isn’t it because Hillhouse’s current scale has reached a certain level that it has become a propellant for China’s technological progress?

However, there are essential differences between Hillhouse Capital and monopoly enterprises like China Power Grid.

For monopoly enterprises like China Power Grid and China Southern Power Grid, the difference in who is in power will not be that big, it is just a matter of how much profit they make.

A monopoly enterprise will definitely not make a loss!

If you make a loss...

However, Hillhouse is a strong, top-tier company that has emerged from a highly competitive environment. Without Gao Huaijun, it really wouldn’t be able to succeed!

Therefore, under the guidance of the guiding ideology of "always treating private enterprises and private entrepreneurs as our own people, and the private economy is the main force in promoting China's modernization", Gao Huaijun's position in China is naturally very high.

His monthly communication with Gao Huaijun was actually to clear up some of Gao Huaijun's misunderstandings.

"Mr. Gao, don't worry. Our country and our party hold a very open attitude towards the private economy." Leader Zhang said lightly.

Gao Huaijun nodded.

"Multimodal models are a key component of AGI systems, such as the GEMINI model that we are currently working on, which can simultaneously process multiple input data such as text, images, audio, video, and code."

"The AGI system that we are researching at the Hillhouse Institute of Artificial Intelligence is about three years ahead of the United States."

After listening to the conversation between Gao Huaijun and Leader Zhang, Andrew Ng continued with a trembling heart.

“AGI will completely change human economy and society.”

“Our goal is to eliminate energy and resource scarcity.”

"The core goal of Hillhouse AI and our company is to bring humanity into an era of great material abundance."

“In the future, most jobs will be done by artificial intelligence and robots, and society’s economy and material will surely be extremely prosperous.”

“Everyone can work according to their own preferences.”

“Perhaps, in our generation, we can realize the goals of communism envisioned by our ancestors!”

At the end of his speech, Andrew Ng couldn't help but sigh.

The AGI he refers to stands for "Artificial General Intelligence", which refers to an artificial intelligence system that can perform a wide range of tasks with an intelligence level and adaptability close to or equal to that of humans.

Unlike weak artificial intelligence (ANI), which is specialized for specific tasks (such as image recognition or language processing), AGI aims to have cross-domain problem-solving capabilities and be able to learn and reason in new environments. It is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence research, pursuing the creation of an intelligent system that can think, learn and adapt to a variety of tasks like humans.

It is artificial intelligence with the same intelligence as humans or even superior to humans, and can exhibit all the intelligent behaviors that normal humans have.

It can be said that this is a very ultimate goal.

After listening to Andrew Ng's words, Leader Zhang stood there in a daze.

According to Andrew Ng's description, Hillhouse has already covered nearly 30% of the way in the field of AGI, among the several major subcategories, including control, perception, thinking, action, cognition, system integration and other major LLMs.

General artificial intelligence is not just around the corner, but it can be said that there is a very good chance of making progress within ten years!
And this general artificial intelligence mainly depends on two parts.

One is computing power, a huge computing power base.

Gao Huaijun has actually mentioned this.

"Mr. Gao, our Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made the latest progress in the East-West Computing project you mentioned. According to the national decision made in December last year, the country will issue one trillion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds this year, focusing on artificial intelligence. This first batch will focus on the East-West Computing project. Guizhou Province is already ready. This is national industrial support." After taking a tour of Hillhouse's artificial intelligence department, Leader Zhang said lightly to Gao Huaijun in the conference room.

Gao Huaijun couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this!
The East-West Computing Project is an extremely important part of Hillhouse’s development.

It is also a major move that requires strategic support at the national level.

"East Data West Computing" can be said to be the "South-to-North Water Diversion" in the digital economy era. Its strategic positioning can be compared with national projects such as "South-to-North Water Diversion" and "West-to-East Power Transmission".

The investment volume may be in the hundreds of billions, and it is an important organizational part of the new infrastructure.

Hillhouse is a major data producer with a very large database. Its processing, storage, and utilization require enormous computing power. However, the energy consumption of building a data center is very high. A large amount of electricity is needed to cool the servers and maintain operations. Data centers have the attribute of high energy consumption. Among the operating costs of data centers, 70% comes from electricity, which is very costly.

Therefore, a center for "Eastern Statistics and Western Calculations" is very necessary!
This time, Leader Zhang gave Gao Huaijun a very unexpected gift!

The development of artificial intelligence focuses on two areas.

One is computing power.

The other one is electricity!
Hillhouse's development of graphics chips has now been upgraded to a level higher than SOC. As the shortage of graphics chips eases, the shortage of electricity and step-down transformers will limit the development of AI.

Now with the cooperation of "East Data West Computing" and graphics chips, the computing power sector and the electricity sector have been basically solved!
Western China has vast clean energy, including wind, solar and hydropower, with extremely rich reserves.

Now that we have the "East Data West Computing" center, these clean energy electricity that were previously known as garbage electricity will be put to very good use.

Hillhouse has also solved the major hidden dangers in the development of AGI!
"The development of artificial intelligence in the United States is also very rapid." Leader Zhang suddenly said.

"Yes! Artificial intelligence will be the hot topic in the next decade, and AGI is the core of artificial intelligence. America is completely 'ALL IN' on this sector!"

“The next decade will be the most important decade in human history.”

"In this decade, we must be ahead of America in having AGI!"

"This is truly a major change that hasn't happened in a thousand years!"

Gao Huaijun said with emotion.

Leader Zhang looked at him deeply.

In fact, he also knows that in terms of high-level applications in the field of science and technology, the development history of Internet companies in the past decade has shown that if they start at the same time, no one in the world may be able to beat the Chinese.

Moreover, Hillhouse seems to be very confident now.

Witness the history!

Everyone is witnessing the most important event in human history!
(End of this chapter)